Loose Change

The true story of three women who grew up during the 1960s, written by someone who was there—Sara Davidson.  When she entered the University of California at Berkeley, she wanted to have fun, pledge a good sorority and eventually get married.  Her new sorority sisters, Tasha and Susie, had similar goals.  None of them knew they were entering college just as a tide of social change was building in America, a tide that would crest first at Berkeley and change these women and the world they knew, forever.


Susie married a star of the radical student movement, whom she idolized until she realized that she wanted to be the one speaking at the microphone, a realization that led her into “women’s liberation.” Tasha, a “golden girl” with stunning looks, became swept up in the world of art and beautiful people.  Sara was a reporter, a seeker of truth who traveled the country covering major events:  sit-ins and be-ins, hippies, rock stars and groupies, communes, Woodstock and Altamont, draftcard burning, bra burning and the sexual revolution.  


Readers will re-experience the Sixties as it was, recorded right then, not as it’s been reevaluated or romanticized.  And for those who didn’t live through the period, they’ll experience what it was like, uncensored and unvarnished.  As Malcolm Cowley wrote of the book:  “Sara Davidson is the liveliest historian of her generation.”